How to make a MS DOS 6.22 USB boot drive

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[@SophieMK8DX]

as a 2009 kid who unfortunately loves old tech (tech in general) i found DOS stuff pretty interesting, tho i cannot experience it at all cause of the lack of floppy drives, only SD, thanks for the help

[@leonardocastro742]

Really nice video; as soon I have time I will try it. For some reason recently I've had curiosity for the DOS world, I never experienced it, my first machine was Win 98.

[@guidolehwalder9376]

Thanks :) this tutorial is also great for creating/formatting a HDD-image for DOSbian on the RPi or for the FabGL-PC-Emulation on a VGA32 ;)

[@JendaLinda]

You can make a bootable DOS flash drive much easier. Extract the contents of the floppy image using 7zip. Format the flash drive using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, that allows you to create a bootable drive using the extracted files.

[@maxmuster7003]

I made one bootable 2 gb USB stick with MS DOS 6.22 and another one with MS DOS 7 from Win98 SE all with the HP Tool. And i made a Boot-CD-ROM with MS DOS 6.22 captured with nero burning rom, then i opened the image file with Debug and added the el torito bytes to make a boot cd. It have a floppy emulation (A:) and a config.sys with a cd rom driver to use a lot of DOS executable and mp3 files.

[@user-zg7qj5xp4t]

thank you, it works!!

[@lothianmcadam1]

what is a floppy?

[@BLSrr]

Again a good video how you do things with DOS. I like your approach with DOSBOX, I use the same procedure but than with virtualbox running MSDOS/PCDOS and create a new images, and then rufus.

[@DigitLineEletronica]

How do you export the VirtualBox image to the Pendrive? Thanks.

[@maxmuster7003]

Good work.

[@maxmuster7003]

I like to make batch files for DOS/DOSBOX to create tiny x86 executable com files with a little help from debug and some pipe operators(> >>

[@dorinxtg]

Great video. Few remarks: 1. You can skip one step and do 2 in 1: format c:/s will format and install the MSDOS basic binaries into the HD 2. Rufus can create a FreeDOS without any preparation to any disk-on-key/dongle, if someone doesn't insist on MS-DOS. Keep up those great videos, I really like them. Also, I think I have here somewhere an Elgato HD 60 capture device. It can only capture HDMI but If you want it, I can send it to you.

[@elijahmmiller]

Great comments and information. I have found the freedos drive img that rufus makes wont boot on my homemade 8088. Thank you for the offer. I have some video capture hardware. I need to get a microphone and then should be able to make better quality videos. I am not a pro youtuber yet.

[@RobertJohnson-lb3qz]

I’m a little confused but curious at the same time. One, I have been under the impression that M.S. jealousy guarded the copies of their products. Is the image actually ms-dos? Also lately I’m really wanting to use a copy of msdos 6.2 that I purchased and, I don’t know how to get it off a cd-rom that I copied it on. If I copied Rufus onto a thumb drive and just copied the three disks that 6.2 was on, is that bootable? Sometimes I wish I were a hoarder and kept all those old floppies... Oh boy... 🤓

[@szaman6204]

very good video!

[@elijahmmiller]

Thank you

[@arihantcomputer2527]

i want make pan drive as floppy but I face some problem do you wants help me.

[@rednorte]

cuando ejecuto el ultimo paso para bootear de c me tira el siguiente eror boot - l c = partition signature !=55AA

[@elijahmmiller]

It sounds like there is an issue with the boot signature in the MBR

[@szaman6204]

How to install windows 3.11 on hard drive using pendrive? xd

[@ayan.debnath]

what to do if I do not have so tiny pen-drive?

[@elijahmmiller]

You can rework the math and create a larger sized drive image. Keep in mind there is a size limit to what DOS can address and the maximum size of a Fat16 partition. Dos does not use Fat32.

[@holdfastmackinaw]

Where do you buy a 64 megabyte usb drive?

[@elijahmmiller]

I get them from AliExpress. You should be able to find some on eBay.

[@AmatorElektronik]

Could you please share this file or send it to me

[@elijahmmiller]

Which file? I made this video a while ago.

[@AmatorElektronik]

@@elijahmmiller I needed MS-DOS 6.22 boot but I managed to find one in allbootdisk. At first it didn't want to work, rufus was doing it wrong, I added a drive letter and it worked.

[@incoherentlyspeaking7748]

64 gb?

[@elijahmmiller]

I don't know what your asking. FAT16 and FAT12 are limited in the size of drive partition. 2GB is the max size. Dos 6.22 doesn't use FAT32 natively.

[@incoherentlyspeaking7748]

@@elijahmmiller sorry for not clarifying. At the beginning you said 64 mb, and I’d like to do something like this with a 64 go drive. I’ll probably just use Rufus to install free dos because that has more modern driver support (which I need since I have a newer laptop) and I won’t have to install an assembler like you did. (When you made the img)

[@incoherentlyspeaking7748]

I thought it would be a cool idea to use windows 95 for school (I’m in college) so I set up a virtual box vm. That worked ok, but didn’t give me enough graphics flexibility to use 256 colors. I then tried PCem, but had issues with connecting to Wi-Fi. As far as school, that made virtual box better, but it was a pain to use and I’d like to not have to interact with modern windows when I’m using it. Using free dos with windows on top of it might be the best option I think, and I’d have a few different windows versions to choose from. Thoughts?

[@elijahmmiller]

Windows 3.11 was basically the last version that ran on top of dos. I made a video demoing it a bit ago. I don't know if windows 3.11 would be very usable these days.

[@timurozalp]

great job dude!... that's a tip from me.... beyond windows 7, to create an image file you just can use fsutil command in cmd; >fsutil file createnew 2gb.hdd 2147483648 😉

[@elijahmmiller]

Thank you

[@lothianmcadam1]

fsutil is DEFINITELY the "quickest, easiest way to create an empty file" syntax is: fsutil file createnew hd.img 16777216